Welcome everyone to our latest newsletter bringing you all the goings on from Cheshire's friendliest Golf Club! It's been a great week in terms of the weather and as usual there are plenty of hot news stories to bring you including: 

-Tom is the hottest golfer in the heat 
- Paul gets his first win of the season 
- It's the last week of our Complete Equipment Solution 
- Ladies do battle with the Seniors
- Don't forget our great membership deals 
- Upcoming events

  

 

Scratch Trophy Review 

The Scratch Trophy is one of the competitions that gives low handicappers the best chance to get their name on the honours boards and conditions were ideal on Saturday as the sun was shining although there were a few tricky pin positions to challenge our golfers as the temperature soared in the afternoon. 

Scratch golfer Tom Duncalf (below) was the lowest handicapper playing but he had never previously won the Scratch Trophy, he put this right on Saturday with a steady two over par round of 71 including birdies on the 1st and 7th holes. Gareth Eaton with a 74 was Tom's closest challenger, Gareth had birdies on the 1st and 12th holes and an excellent eagle on the 15th hole brought him right into contention to challenge for the best gross score and a par on the last hole would have given him the same score as Tom - however the heat must have got to Gareth and a costly triple bogey meant that he finished runner up in both the nett and the gross categories. Next in the gross section was Kieran Underwood with a 75.

  

In the nett category the winner was Gary Cashmore who returned a fine nett 66, Gary got off to a shaky start but he dropped just 4 shots on the back nine and his score was good enough to see off Gareth Eaton (Nett 67) in second place and Chris Bird also on nett 67 in third place, Chris also had an agonising triple bogey on the 18th despite being in the middle of the fairway with his tee-shot, maybe it was too hot for everyone!

  

Midweek Medal News 

By his standards Paul Underwood has had a quiet season so far but he really got things going last Wednesday as he scored a fine 77 off a 15 handicap to return a nett 62 and take his first victory of the summer. 

The highlight of his round was a birdie on the 8th hole and a brilliant run of 5 consecutive pars to finish his round set up his winning score. Alan Tayler finished in second place with a nett 66 and Paul's son Kieran Underwood had two birdies in his nett 70 score.

  

We have a free weekend this week in terms of competitions so it's a good chance for those of you still involved to play knockout matches.


 

CES Runs Out Soon

We have seen a good number of you over the last 6 weeks or so for our Complete Equipment Solution and the results speak for themselves, we are seeing golfers pick up distance and accuracy as a result of custom fitting them for new clubs and coupled with the free follow up lesson that we offer they are also improving their technique - definitely a win-win situation! 

We recently fitted Duncan Elliott for some new PING clubs and he had this to say:

'I played my first competition with my new driver and irons after a custom fitting session at Hartford and had my best score in 3 years! I only missed two fairways all day with my new PING driver and I was hitting shorter irons into every green which makes the game so much easier and it's given me lots of confidence in my game, I can't wait to get back out on the course again!'

The CES is only running until the end of July so you need to get booked in the next week or so if you want to take advantage of our offer - which is FREE custom fitting on new equipment from top brands PING, TaylorMade, Titleist and Callaway and if you make a purchase you also get a FREE follow up 30 minute lesson, remember it's an offer you won't see on the internet sites or in high street shops and it almost guarantees you better golf, who doesn't want that?! Click here to book your CES session now.


 

Ladies & Seniors 

This Tuesday the Ladies played their annual match against the Seniors section, it's always a fun but highly competitive match amongst the 32 players involved. 

The seniors won the first 2 matches narrowly on the last green and all the matches ended up being close affairs but in the end the seniors prevailed by a score of 6-2. 

It was sweet revenge for the seniors after last year's defeat to the ladies, here is Lady Captain Sandra passing the shield over to seniors Captain Bob.

  

Ladies Club Championships 

For all the lady golfers remember that it's the Ladies Club Championship this Sunday at 12:04 pm, all lady members are allowed to enter and as it's the most prominent competition of the ladies season it would be good to see a big turn out, it's still not too late to enter and you can just let us know here if you want to play.


 

Membership Options

The weather is great at the moment, the golf course is in fantastic condition and with the long evenings there really couldn't be a better time to join, not only that but we have some great membership deals to suit every budget and lifestyle. 

Our flexible membership is a great option as for £200 you can purchase 200 points to use for discounted rounds of golf, you can get up to 25 games for your 200 points and if they are used up you can just top up 50 at a time, the points can be used for rounds of golf at Hartford and our sister course Pryors Hayes near Chester. For a small extra fee you can set up a handicap and this will allow you to also play in all of our club competitions. 

If you think you might just play over the Summer our trial membership is another option - it allows you to join for 2 months for just £100, you can't play in competitions as a trial member but you do get 2 months of unlimited golf here and at Pryors Hayes.

We also offer full membership with both 5 and 7 day options and offer discounts for couples that join or for those of you aged 25 or under membership is also discounted, if you have a budding young golfer our junior membership starts from just £50 for under 12's. 

As you can see we should have a membership category to suit everyone from the keen competitive golfer through to the occasional player, if you have any questions please contact us here. 




- Junior competition - Saturday 24th June 2:28pm 
- Ladies Club Championship - Sunday 25th June 12:04pm 
- Seniors 18 hole Stableford - Tuesday 27th June 9:16am 
- Ladies 9 hole roll up - Thursday 29th June 9:24am 
- July Medal - Saturday 1st July 12:04pm